Today's News:
* Filming for the sequel to 2006 Silent Hill film, Return to Silent Hill, reportedly is currently scheduled to start next month, according to Deadline. It was reported that Christophe Gans will be the director and Jeremy Irvine was casted as the lead star portraying James for the upcoming film. In terms of plot, this upcoming film is currently believed to be based on the Silent Hill 2 game.
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https://deadline.com/2023/03/return-...ls-1235299997/
* IO Interactive announced that they have recently launched a new studio in Istanbul, Turkey as part of their current growth plans for the company. It was also announced that this new studio will be helping with the development of their upcoming 007 and Project Fantasy games.
Link:
https://ioi.dk/careers/news/2023/ann...g-ioi-istanbul
* Studio ZA/UM, developer of Disco Elysium, reportedly recently settled several lawsuits filed by their former employees over claims of unfair dismissals and firings. All of the lawsuits have been or are expected to be dropped and resolved due to lack of evidence issues.
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Originally Posted by Destructoid
Disco Elysium developer Studio ZA/UM has, to various effect, resolved numerous lawsuits filed against it within the past year. These include a case with the game’s executive producer, Kaur Kender, as well as several Unfair Dismissal suits filed by several key members of the studio, who left the team in fall 2022.
The Kaur Kender lawsuit saw the former ZA/UM producer sue the studio’s majority shareholding company Tütreke, claiming that ZA/UM CEO Ilmar Kompus had essentially “cheated” him out of €1 million, while also trying to illegally wrest control of the studio away from the founding members of the team. However, the case will no longer be progressing, as per a statement from Kompus offered to GamesIndustry.biz ...
The unfair dismissal suits were filed following the revelation that Disco Elysium designer Robert Kurvitz, writer Helen Hindpere, and art director Aleksander Rostov were no longer at the studio, having been “involuntary” pushed out of the company by its owners. While initially offering a more diplomatic statement, Kompus and business partner Tõnis Haavel would eventually allege that the departing members had been “creating a toxic environment”, and “belittling co-workers”, with the party also accused of “intending to steal the IP”.
Studio ZA/UM now says that Kurvits and Rostov have dropped their respective suits, with the studio claiming a lack of evidence prevented the cases from progressing. The studio notes that it expects further accusations and cases to be brought forward by former employees, and it expects these cases to meet similar fates. In addition, Studio ZA/UM has received a €4.8 million payment from its owner, Tütreke.
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Link:
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/zaum-r...er-kaur-kender ,
https://www.destructoid.com/studio-z...disco-elysium/